A personal retrospective covering 8 weeks of watching India's live dealer category — Hindi-table inventory that materialized vs stalled, PROGA Act 2025 first-quarter operational reality, app store moderation patterns I noticed on my Pixel, UPI/MCC routing changes, and what the May 2026 ground-level picture says about where the category goes through 2026.
A Bengaluru notebook on the Hindi-default Play Store tray in May 2026 — Andar Bahar finally getting real engineering, Teen Patti UX conventions crystallizing, the matka subsegment more segmented than English-side coverage admits, and where Hindi-first design actually shows up versus where it remains marketing façade.
India's AI narrative is loud. But what's actually shipping? A ground-level look at what companies are building versus what's being marketed.
Beyond the Silicon Valley comparisons — actual numbers, real burn rates, and what it costs to build in India's startup capital.
1.4 billion Aadhaar IDs, 300M UPI users, 800M internet connections. Behind the headline numbers, a more complicated story.
India went from 'gaming is for kids' to the world's largest mobile gaming market in under a decade.
The engineering and policy decisions that turned UPI into the world's most used real-time payment rail.
Satta matka — one of India's oldest informal betting formats — has moved online. What the technical transition looks like, why it's regulatorily complicated, and what it means for India's broader gaming landscape.